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As previously discussed, we can divide processes into the two broad categories of packaged vs unpackaged, based on if the process HAS or LACKS package identity. Packaged processes can be divided into three broad categories: Universal Link to article: …
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Most developers I talk to aren't asking whether Azure SQL Database can handle their next app. They're asking where to start when it comes to modernization, migration, and AI in the database. If you're reading this, you're probably in a similar boat: you've got an existing schema or databases, a scaling question you …
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The August update gives you more control over two parts of development that can get complicated quickly: choosing the right level of AI assistance and managing work across Git branches and repositories. You can now tune model thinking effort for the task in front of you, share custom agents across your organization, …
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Wolverine 6.30 is out. It is a big release with one clear headline: a new endpoint mode, EndpointMode.NativeAck, plus the supporting cast it needed to be trustworthy — lease renewal, an additional idempotency guard, partitioning, and a five-node chaos harness to address a reported issue. This release came with feature …
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We are happy to announce a 30-day trial experience for Azure SRE Agent. New customers can create and configure the SRE Agent at their own pace, with no charges for setup time or keeping agents ready. During the trial, you can connect your agents to telemetry, source code, incident management platforms, and other …
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Combining C# specifications with AND, OR, and NOT requires Boolean laws, explicit null policies, parameter rebinding, and EF Core relational provider tests. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/08/25/combining-c-specifications-with-and-or-and-not
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In this post I show how to find the total number of logical CPUs on a host (not just those available to a process); something that isn't exposed in modern .NET Link to article: https://andrewlock.net/finding-the-total-number-of-processors-on-a-machine-with-dotnet/
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Every week there’s at least one new announcement about what AI will do to software development. Most of the conversation moves fast and stays shallow, focusing on productivity gains, job displacement, or which model scored highest on the latest benchmark. We’re more interested in the questions underneath that noise, so …
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI assistants a standardized way to interact with software. Learn how to construct your first MCP server in ASP.NET Core, expose C# tools using standard attributes, and test your setup end-to-end with the official MCP Inspector. Link to article: …
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how advances across chips, compute, models, and products compound to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower cost. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/the-full-stack-behind-abundant-intelligence
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Jalapeño is a custom inference chip from OpenAI that delivers faster, more power-efficient AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/jalapeno-first-results
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OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia
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The best AI in Visual Studio is the AI you can bring with you. Developers don't work in a single-model world anymore. You might reach for one model for everyday coding, another for a domain-specific problem, and an approved model for work that must stay within your organization's governance boundaries. So, the question …
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Learn how hybrid search RAG .NET combines lexical BM25 and dense vector candidates in one Azure AI Search request with reciprocal rank fusion. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/08/24/hybrid-search-for-rag-in-net-bm25-vectors-and-reciprocal-rank-fusion
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Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest August 2026 critical patch update release for the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Check our Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-openjdk-august-2026-critical-patch-update
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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers managed Ray support on Amazon EKS. Create and monitor Ray clusters, connect JupyterLab and Code Editor notebooks to live clusters, get out-of-the-box observability, and run resilient distributed training and accelerated inference from SageMaker Studio, all with open-source KubeRay …
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A couple of weeks ago I was talking with a couple of friends who are building agents with Microsoft Agent Framework. The demos were great, the agents were smart, everyone was happy. And then one of them asked the question: "OK, the agent is done… now, how do I deploy this thing?" And the table went Link to …
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Learn how to build a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system on AWS that captures and delivers institutional (tribal) knowledge through a voice-first AI avatar. The accelerator uses Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for retrieval-augmented generation and deploys in hours with AWS CloudFormation. Link to …
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C# 15 will ship with .NET 11 in November. All the new features are available in .NET 11 preview 7 for you to try now. C# 15 adds union types, closed hierarchies, the first preview of an updated unsafe model, collection expression arguments, extension indexers, and labeled break and continue Link to article: …
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